Famous Brands, the owner of Steers, Wimpy and Mugg & Bean, expects its headline earnings per share (Heps) to double in its half-year to end-August as customers continued their return to eating out.

Famous Brands also owns a range of higher-end restaurant chains that include Turn ’n Tender, Mythos, Salsa and Lupa Osteria, which would have also done better this year after Covid-19 restrictions ended. Alcohol bans and curfews affected sit-down dinner trade in 2021 as consumers avoided a rushed night out...

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